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Re: What are the arguments *for* XHTML 2.0?

• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: What are the arguments *for* XHTML 2.0?
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:11:08 +0100
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• Organization: Expway
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> I don't see any information about how the respondents were selected. 
> Since it was done as an online study, it's entirely possible that there 
> was some selection affect that skewed the sample population.

And without casting aspersions, given the amount of FUD I've seen come from MM 
in the past two years I would hardly be surprised.

> I also note, that if you actually look at the numbers, only 53% of the 
> survey respondents in the U.S. had Flash 6. Numbers were slightly higher 
> elsewhere up to 61.3% in Europe. You can get 92% going back only to 
> Flash 5. You only achieve the 97.8% number by including everything back 
> to Flash 2. Can Flash 2 view modern Flash documents?

The technical details are a bit boring, but the simple answer is "yes, but most 
likely not in any meaningful way".

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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
Research Engineer, Expway
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  • Re: What are the arguments *for* XHTML 2.0?
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